On Dec 1, 2006, at 6:56 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> "Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com> writes:
>> This includes refactoring of some of the trace related GUC docs from
>> config.sgml, so its all in the one place.
>
> Why exactly is that a good idea? Since DTrace is Solaris-only, this
> almost seems like an attempt to hide non-Solaris-specific information
> where people won't look for it. Moreover, the point of config.sgml
> is to describe all the configuration parameters in one place. We
> do not
> need to have people second-guessing that decision for random subsets
> of the parameters.
There is high likelihood that DTrace will be present in FreeBSD 7.0
and Mac OS 10.5. So, 3 of the support platforms would make use of it.
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